Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for October 22, 2021

Just a pre-bath snack.

Your “Invisible drink” needs more work, Calvin. Good luck getting there.

The Naked Lunch.

If eight year old me made this discovery I’d walk right into a women’s locker room.

If he is all in the cookie jar then I guess he is aiming for being a genie?

So….is his mom saying it would be OK to be in the cookie jar if he had his clothes on?

You were doing so well yesterday and you had to go one step too far!

Busted!

It was worth a shot…

Counting the cookies to make sure Suzie didn’t steal any

Just one thing—why are there cookies in the house if Calvin isn’t allowed to have any??

Just be glad it isn’t a pie, Mom.

Luckily he tried to perpetrate at home.

Why are all the cookie jars so easily in reach for children?

Jarring!!!

Must have worn off, Dr. Jekyll…

Don´t you hate it when that happens?

Mom has her own superpowers; Calvin forgot that.

Well, if you’re going to go commando, you might as well be savage while you’re at it.

I would say “Been there,” but I feel like that would seem awkward.

At least Calvin is getting that “evidence-based reality” lesson young, that so many adults seem to have missed.

“Just trying to keep my clothes from getting cookie crumbs on them so you’d have more clothes to wash. Love you mom see ya’ later!” Don’t think just run Calvin – run!!!!

a metaphor for those who embrace alternative facts as reality…

Nice try.

Turned out it was only his scheme that was transparent. :)

Calvin forgot. Mom Vision beats invisibility.

Kids, don’t try this at home.

Parents are giving a dinner party and the two young children walk in starkers. No-one wanted to make a fuss or draw attention to it so they just all smile and say nothing. As the children are leaving the room, one is heard to say to the other, “See? I told you vanishing cream really works.”

Because he couldn’t fit in the jar with his clothes on.

Good thing he didn’t try to sneak in late to class at school…

One of those times when you wish Mom would just butt out, right Calvin?! :D

You don’t want him to get crumbs on his clothes, do you?

so much for denying reality

Ohhhhh, mama!, is that yard stick gonna sting whacking bare behind!

When Calvin turned invisible yesterday, his clothes turned invisible too. So why are they visible today?

Man, I hope someone got fired for that blunder!

Calvin forgot that moms have eyes in th3 back of their head and can see everything everywhere.

I see it as just another Saturday morning, except the cookies are Entenmann’s chocolate frosted donuts.

HAHAHA I’ve seen this one a thousand times and I still laugh out loud

I’d throw all those cookies out.

Compared to yesterday’s strip, NOW Calvin’s clothes don’t turn invisible with him!

https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0026.html

OK, now for the physics/optics lecture:

For eyes to see, the retina must absorb light. If those eyes see in our visible spectrum, then, at a minimum, the retinas must still be visible. You may have noticed this about some otherwise transparent species. The retinas of the eyes are visible.

You could be transparent and still ‘see’, if your vision worked in a range of the electromagnetic spectrum outside the range of human vision.

BTW, to be truly invisible, not only would you have to not absorb any part of the visible spectrum, but you would also need to have the same index of refraction as the medium (like the air around you) in which you were hiding. Otherwise, the interface between you and the air could still result in reflected light, just like light reflected off of water or clear glass, making your presence known.

So, Calvin’s invisibility is ‘all in his head’, and Mom has no trouble seeing him, clothes or no clothes.

And still the comic is delightfully comical! :)

One of the downsides of being invisible. You never know when the spell will wear off.

Getting a cookie. The answer is intuitively obvious!

Fact: Being naked also makes you invisible on Zoom calls. Try it sometime!

I was the oldest of eight kids, so there was no concept of a cookie jar or similar collection of treats. Some carrots and such were available.

Will he get a spanking in the buff?

So it would be okay for Calvin to be in the cookie jar if he had his clothes on?

I warned you all yesterday.

At least he was going for a cookie jar, and not an apple pie.

It has now become – officially and unfortunately – “the cockie jar”.

what the heck is wrong with this boys imagination